Description of problem: Three times this month (twice this week) I have had to reboot this uniprocessor AMD Duron because the machine will quite suddenly (within the space of a minute or two) go into a swap frenzy. When this happens, no progress is observed at all. I can't switch virtual consoles. I can't log in remotely. Alt-SysRq-E (to SIGTERM all tasks) eventually stops it, but at that point nothing will display on the screen and sshd is also dead, so I have to reboot anyway. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.8-1.541 How reproducible: Don't know how to reproduce it, but it happens enough to be really annoying.
This just happened *again*. This time I was burning a CD using cdrecord and suddenly the machine became completely unresponsive. The disk was in constant use. It has happened before while burning a CD. Perhaps it's related to that? (It's also happened when I'm not doing that.)
hmm audio cd by chance ???
Yes.
This just happened again, but I was not burning a CD at all. Two local users logged in, Mozilla, Firefox, Evolution and GIMP were all that was running.
Happened again with even lighter load. This time I was running 2.6.8-1.521 (latest FC2 kernel) to try to avoid the problem. I'll try 2.6.8-1.590.
FWIW, I haven't seen this again yet with 2.6.8-1.590.
Still haven't seen this again. I only switched from 1.590 (to 1.603) today. Looks like this might be fixed?
Pretty sure this is fixed now.